Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1907 — The Cigarette In London. [ARTICLE]

The Cigarette In London.

City men in London are charged with being too fond of “My Lady Nicotine.” A physician, whose practice is almost entirely among stock exchange men, considers that his clients are as a rule worse offenders than any* other class of professional or business men. "It is rarely outside the city,” he says, “that you will find the chronic smoker who persists in the abuse of the habit until nicotine saturation all but amounts to nicotine poisoning. You would find in my practice books the most frequent entry opposite the names of patients to be ‘cigarette throat’ or ‘nicotine heart.’ ”

“Cigarette smoking is the dram drinking of smoking, the habit of ‘nipping’ between meals. I advise my patients to smoke once after meals and never continuously till after dinner In the evening. If smokers generally adopted this plan the world might sleep on both ears, so far as ‘My Lady Nicotine’ is concerned.

"Usually," continued this philosophically minded observer, "the old responsible stock broker is a very careful liver. He is fond of ‘curling a roseleaf round a good cigar, but be is careful not to smoke injuriously. , It is the new fry during active times who habitually sport green cigars or the favorite brand of cigarettes. The cigar is the barometer of prosperity, the cigarette the indication of narcotic of restlessness. Among clerks and juniors the chief danger arises from the cheap cigarettes! The cigar, owing to the lack of business among the speculative fraternity, has long been abandoned with a muffled curse.” —Washington Post